Conversio Virium

CV Meeting: BDSM E.R. with Sir Guy

Join us in 303 Hamilton for a very important presentation. Sir Guy is a dominant uniform fetishist, a NYS certified emergency medical technician, and a trainer of EMS personnel. His presentation on BDSM E.R. is a must see:

Your “hot” wax scene gets a little TOO hot, and someone gets burned… You are a little TOO sharp with your knife play and your bottom finally gets the point… Your gag works a little TOO well and your bottom has no voice, and NO BREATH… What do you do? Sir Guy will review these and other scenarios as he guides you through medical emergencies in the scene. He will also deal with first aid musts, improvised first aid, when to call for help, and what to tell first responders.

KinkyJews: Purim Striptease Extravaganza

Join KinkyJews on a trip to a strip club this Saturday in honor of the Purim holiday.

LOCATION: HOT Lap Dance Club
Midtown West (RSVP for the meet up location)

DATE: Saturday Night, March 22
MEET UP TIME: 11:00 PM

OPEN TO: Men and Women 21+

COST: There is a one time Membership Fee of $10 and an Admission Fee of $50. The cover charge includes unlimited beverages and mixers, snacks and a hot and cold buffet dinner. BYOB.

RSVP: to contact@kinkyjews.com to receive meet-up time and location

Pleasure Salon: Monthly Meeting at Revival

If you haven’t yet gone to one, I highly encourage you to check out the monthly Pleasure Salon get togethers hosted by Patricia Johnson, Mark Michaels, and Selina Fire at a downtown Manhattan bar or lounge. If you have gone to one, then you’ll be happy to know the next Pleasure Salon is being held next week on March 27^th. As usual, from the open invitation:

The Pleasure Salon has been created to build community, allowing sex-positive activists to cross-pollinate. Our gatherings bring together members of the BDSM, swinger, alternative gender, LGBT, sex-activist, nudist, sex-magic, polyamory, Pagan, radical faerie, tantra, dark odyssey, sex-blogger, porn, pervert and sex-worker communities, and others whose passion is sex. (Let us know if we missed any one of you!) Through building networks in the sex-positive community, The Pleasure Salon hopes to help create a sex-positive world. It is a place for the open exchange of ideas and sensual expression.

We have been thrilled by the turnout at previous gatherings. A community of New York area Pleasure Positive folks is developing rapidly, and we hope that you will join us or continue to be part of it. Please invite your like-minded friends. In keeping with the spirit of Dark Odyssey, we encourage everyone to embrace the basic principles of respect, tolerance, acceptance, openness, and non-judgmental support.

CV Meeting: Single Tailing with Rob

Do you like consensual violence and loud noises? Do you aspire to Zorro and Indiana Jones? Or would you prefer to disarm them and give them a taste of their own medicine? Would-be heroes and dastardly perverts, join us as Rob introduces the sexiest, noisiest toy in the box.

If you have a single tail handy, it’s BYO toys! Glow-in-the-dark nylon, kangaroo hide, whatever; CV encourages diversity.

Please note: due to spring break, there will be no meeting on March 17th.

LSM Meeting: Ouch…MMM! Temporary Piercing Workshop with Ray Aims

Mmm, piercing. If you couldn’t get enough of this sexy art-form at the College-Night party at Paddles, check out this workshop with the Lesbian Sex Mafia.

Where: The LGBT Center at 203 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Cost: $5 for members, $10 for non-members (Be sure to renew your LSM membership for 2008!)

Piercing flesh can be any combination of incredibly erotic, intimate, painful, beautiful and brutal. Have you been curious about temporary piercing but didn’t know where to start? Playing with needles is fun but getting started can be daunting. This workshop will cover where to find the materials to start, safe play for piercer and piercee, proper preparation of the skin, how to set up a clean and safe play area, and how to safely pierce for pain, pleasure and art. We will start with piercing fruit and move on to piercing people. Each person who wants to experience piercing and/or being pierced will have the opportunity to do so. Partners, play partners and singles all welcome.

Ray Aims is the alter-ego of a Boston, MA USA based artist/designer/producer/performer who has been piercing in public and private since 2003. The fight between beauty and pain is what draws Ray to temporary piercing. Ray learned temporary piercing from Fetish Diva Midori and consultations with Aimee Ross/The Bearded Lady and is always practicing and learning. Ray’s work can be seen at www.truthserum.org/rayaims and http://www.truthserum.org/rayaims_photos.

Suspend DC: Flesh-Hook-Piercing Suspension @ The Crucible

Suspend DC is a flesh hook event that offers horizontal and vertical suspensions, energy pulls, and plenty of vicarious endorphins. At The Crucible, DC’s largest and best equipped public dungeon. The club’s ceiling winch allows for plenty of lift for high flying. Play stations throughout the space give ample public and private space for BDSM play. Early registration closes March 22nd.

Vertical Suspension costs $100 for pre-registrants/$120 for those paying at the door and includes 4-6 hooks set in the shoulders, chest, arms or knees which are then attached to ropes and rigging. As the rigging is lifted, up you go on your hooks. Like bungie jumping with a little more edge and not so much bounce.

Horizontal Suspension costs $140 for pre-registrants/$160 for those paying at the door and includes upward from a dozen smaller hooks set into the sides of the body at key points, then attached to more extensive ropes and rigging before being lifted. Fly like Superman or just hang and chill like one of the bodies in the movie Coma.

Folks not ready to fly can still play with hooks and sensation by participating in an energy pull, alone or with friends.
Energy Pulls cost $60 for pre-registrants/$80 for those paying at the door and include hooks set in the chest, arms or back which are then attached to ropes allowing the hooks to be pulled by others or by the individual in resistance to an anchor point.

If this sounds exciting, but you are not sure if you are ready to try either, supporters and spectators are welcome, and encouraged.
Spectators/supporters pay $25 to get in the door and are welcome to drum, eat and generally help hold the space.

The Crucible
1816 Half Street SW, Washington DC
Suspend DC asks that you be sober for this event. There will be enough endorphins and adrenaline to go around. Please read the Registration Guidelines for more information.

Submit Party: BDSM play and sex party for women and transfolk

The monthly Submit parties are a space for women and female-identified transfolk to play, kiss, have sex, and talk to one another at a club and a party dedicated to fulfilling sex and BDSM desires. What happens at Submit parties? The web site says:

It’s really all about having big fun and satisfying your sexual and sensual fantasies and desires. You can watch all night if that’s what you want.

BDSM play from the mildest of spankings to the heaviest of scenes. Cruising, asking, and trying something or someone new. You and your date can make out in dark corners or fuck in the middle of the room. You and your friends can cruise till you all pick up that hot stranger and all go at it.

We’ll hook you up with gloves, lube, and condoms.

CV Meeting: The Power of Playing with Gender- A BDSM and Sex Workshop taught by Corey Alexander

Gender is more than man or woman, intersexed or trans. Gender is also an arena of power, rich with opportunities for play. Regardless of actual body, gender identity or sexuality, in gender play, we all can be sissies, fags, little girls, goddesses, and leather daddies. This workshop is designed to enrich your sex and play and help you find your gender hot spots.

TES’s Novice Group: How Do I Get You To Play With Me?

Join Mistress Trish, Calico, Mike S, Lady D, and Bo as they tackle the age old question:

This “SM Thing” is really exciting and all cool and stuff but… How come it’s so darn hard to attract the kind of top/bottom/switch I want?! Why does everything seem so clique-ish. Do I need a secret handshake? A Password??

Join a fabulous panel of Tops, Bottoms, Switches, Pro and Lifestyle players who will give you insight and answer all your questions.

260 W 36th Street 3rd floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues
$4 for members; $8 for non-members

TES-TNG: “TNG Summit Forum” with special guests Boymeat and Josh Hightower

TES-TiNG, TES’s group for young adults, aged 35 and under, is like Conversio Virium’s big sister; a sexy, incestuous big sister who coordinates with us on parties, demos, discussion groups, and kink-related mayhem. Now we urge our members to come show their support at TNG’s summit forum:

Is TNG, still relevant? Does the need for such a SIG still exist? Does TNG still serve the needs of its young members…, and the larger leather community? Or is that need now being met by local college BDSM groups? Please join us for this important meeting, where we hope to discuss/answer these questions, as well as develop ideas and strategies on how to reenergize TES-TNG. We are very honored to have Boymeat and Josh Hightower, our TNG founders, to discuss the history and growth of TNG, as both a local and national entity…and to give a special reading of Boymeat’s 2007 Rio Grande Leather Keynote Speech.

$4 for members; $8 for non-members
260 W 36th Street 3rd floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues
College students get in FREE with a valid student ID!!!

Advice from CV: Legality of Paying for BDSM

Dear CV,

I am considering visiting one of the many establishments in NYC where one can purchase BDSM-related services. I am a complete novice to these activities but I am very interested in learning what they have to offer.

However, I am very concerned about the legal status of these businesses. Is it indeed legal to visit one of these places? Could one be arrested for being there and engaging in the fantasies that are described on their websites?

Thanks!

—Considering a Pro

Dear Considering a Pro,

Dungeons are indeed a legal enterprise in NYC. While prostitution is illegal in New York, commercial dungeons do not offer sex as a part of the services you may purchase. To define it more clearly: it’s legal to masturbate yourself, but the provider can’t do it for you.

So to address your concern, no, you should not have to worry about being arrested just for being at a dungeon or for paying to practice BDSM. Just remember to follow the code of conduct of the establishment, don’t solicit sex, and respect the boundaries of the provider you are spending time with.

Best,
Tyler and the other Officers of Conversio Virium

TES College Night Play Party: A Cyborg Invasion @ Paddles

“And they came, with silver skin & flashing hair, eyes glinting with cold metallic mercy. A virus of lust had been downloaded & they had gathered to run the program… They came to dent fenders, to overload circuits, to liberate black oil thick like blood… It was the beginning of the CyborRevel”

NOT TO BE MISSED: the first College Night of 2008, hosted by Antonia and Blaise. Come for Rob’s “piercing couture” and stay for college discounts, cyborg-themed decadence, Automaton Tunes, anime porn, and a floor show!

Paddles 250 W 26St, basement, between 7th and 8th Ave
Students With Valid ID: $10, Members: $25, Non-Members: $35

TES-TiNG: An Evening at Conversio Virium

TES-TiNG is coming up to visit us at Conversio Virium It’s an honor for CV to host TES-TiNG, TES’s group for young adults, aged 35 and under. This is also a chance for us at CV to network with the rest of the New York City kink community. From the TES-TiNG calendar announcement:

Join us at 7 PM at the Chelsea Gallery Restaurant (72 7^th Avenue between 14^th and 15^th Street) for dinner, coffee, and/or a snack. Ask for “TES” at the diner. Then at around 8 PM we’ll head up to Columbia University to attend a Conversio Virium meeting, Columbia/NYC’s Student BDSM Discussion Group

CV Meeting: TES-TiNG Takeover! Panel Discussion on Youth and Leadership in the Scene

Come one, come all to 303 Hamilton for a panel discussion, moderated by Blaise. TES-TiNG, TES’s group for young adults, aged 35 and under, will be dropping by for a visit. Together, we will tackle questions of purpose and identity. Why are young adults a special interest group? What can we offer? Where can we improve? Why did I choose head a BDSM Education Group when I should have been studying for my GREs? In what ways are Conversio Virium and TES-TiNG important to the wider BDSM community?